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A girl and her dog. This girl got up and got dressed for school because she knows we are going to a pizza party today at the school today. The funny thing is her outfit screams school girl from the plaid skirt to the colorful color naming shirt she’s wearing. However, She doesn’t go this year… we will be doing homeschool again for her though! #honestandunbiasedblog #chicago #chicagohomeschool #mpchicago #memoriapress https://www.instagram.com/p/CTFEyQCLmBR/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Review of Memoria Press Classical Composition Fable and Narrative

Review of Memoria Press Classical Composition Fable and Narrative #hsreviews #memoriapress #homeschool #writingcourse #writing @memoriapress @+Memoriapress1 @MemoriaPress @HomeschoolCrew @HomeschoolReviewCrew

My daughter, Mercedes, is a writer and was excited to enhance her writing skills and try out Classical Composition I: Fable Set and Classical Composition II: Narrative Set from Memoria Press for this product review.

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Taking a break from our @memoriapress classical curriculum today to see if we can use @thedragontree #Dreambook to focus on the why of learning, and also so that they are more involved in planning their future. With @justaddwater.me #Snackies of course, #parfait...going for one section a week so it's ready for January! #bigideasforlittlepeople #homeschooling

[raisingaselfreliantchild]

First Form Latin Review

Homeschool Latin Curriculum for Grades 5 & Up (Even Adults)

When Memoria Press offered their Form Latin courses for review, I thought Super Hero might want in since he’s been studying Latin for a while.  So I visited their website and took a look as I always do. After seeing samples, watching video lessons, and reading reviews, I took a much closer look!  —First Form Latin would make an excellent choice not just for him, but for myself, too.  I had started to learn Latin along with my son when he did, but my intention fell through the cracks somehow.  Now, First Form Latin was offering us the chance to learn Latin together once and for all.

What We Received

Memoria Press sent us First Form Latin Complete Set, an incredibly generous package to get started with Latin. The complete package, which includes video lessons in a 3-DVD set, retails for $125.  Memoria Press offers a similar package with streaming video lessons instead of the DVDs, should you prefer that option instead.

  First Form Latin Complete Set: Student Text & Workbook, Teacher Manual & Answer Keys, Quizzes & Tests, 3 DVDs with full video lessons, Pronunciation CD, and Flashcards

  What to Expect

Expect a big box with all the goodies: books, teacher guides & keys, workbooks, flashcards, CDs, and DVDs. First Form Latin includes everything you can possibly need to teach Latin with ease, even if you have no prior knowledge at all.  It’s impossible to overlook the fine quality of Memoria Press’ materials. The shiny, colorful book covers, with smooth, silky white pages in black and blue ink.  First impressions do matter I guess, and that alone makes you want to dive right in.

Course Structure

As with all Memoria Press courses, First Form Latin offers a very structured approach. The course is to last a full school year doing it every weekday. If there are co-ops and other activities begging for your time, it’s easy to adapt to 4, or even 3 days per week. I stopped trying to fit lessons into a fixed number of days long ago.  Inevitably something always happens that interfere with our schedule.  I like to keep it flexible:

Day 1: The Lesson. Either watch the lesson on the DVD or follow the Teacher Manual. Or watch the DVD, then just fill in with anything in the Teacher Manual the video might have missed.

Day 2:  Begin with recitations and grammar questions. Then complete one worksheet. Close with the flashcards.

Day 3+: The same as Day 2 until all of lesson’s worksheets are done. There are 4 to 6 worksheets per lesson.

Day 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 (depending on how many days the above takes us): Oral drills in textbook and quiz.

  Naturally, we play it by ear a bit. I don’t go through the entire list of grammar questions or flash all the cards every single time.  Nor do we play the recitations CD every day, mostly we recite quickly without the CD.  If this course is to succeed, it’s of vital importance we keep our load gentle and our pace comfortable.

Memoria Press suggests to follow the end of each lesson with optional history supplements. They suggest their own Lingua Angelica or Famous Men of Rome.  As secular homeschoolers, I’m not inclined to consider Lingua Angelica. But we did tag Famous Men of Rome to the end of lesson 1.  It’s relevant, and we enjoy it quite well. It’s definitely something I’d love to continue throwing in here and there, or perhaps more regularly.  We’ll see.

  Well Planned Out Lessons

The textbook and the DVD present very well planned out lessons.  Evidently Ms. Cheryl Lowe, the author, and her team devoted a great deal of time and effort putting it all together. I value the workbook exercises in particular, tackling topics from several angles.  They certainly help in understanding and deepening connections with Latin itself and with English.  Requiring a daily worksheet 4 to 6 days after each 20 minute lecture is such a wise approach.  —Slow and steady, that’s how the brain cements knowledge.  Pair those with the audio recitations, the questions, and the flashcards, and you’ll embrace pretty much all learning styles.

    The Video Lessons

The Instructor in the video lessons is just super. We both like Glen Moore a lot. He’s instructive and entertaining —a true edutainment experience! We enjoy his methodical lectures, and his jokes and relevant asides.  You can tell that he not only has experience teaching Latin, but he enjoys it as well. He’s a professional Latin teacher after all.

I do, however, take his Latin pronunciation with a grain of salt.  To be fair, he did clarify his recitations do not necessarily follow the correct pronunciation. The chants are to help memorization, so “feel free to stress the syllables any way you want.” Okay, that might be a valid reason, but I still would rather chant with the actual intonation lest I will get it wrong when I speak it.  —Not that I’m planning to have real conversations in Latin any time soon, or come to think of it, ever!  Still, it would be helpful to memorize correctly from the get-go.  Aside from his recitation disclaimer, I still believe he makes an error. He pronounces the third person, plural, of the future tense conjugation incorrectly.  The Latin ending is “bunt,” hence pronounced boont,  as in foot, not bunt as in, well, bunt.

Despite this mispronunciation point, both Super Hero and I, love watching Glen Moore’s lecture.  It takes about 15 to 20 minutes, which is the perfect length in our opinion.  Here’s a sample lesson so you can see for yourself the charming edutainer Glen Moore in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fqtqPFyVGc

  The next day (after the video lesson,) we begin with the grammar questions, as instructed in the Teacher Guide, then we do one worksheet, or two sometimes, depending on how quickly we finish.  Last, we rehearse our vocabulary with the flashcards. At the end of each lesson —that is after several days of working with worksheets, grammar questions, recitations, and flashcards, we practice the Oral Drill before we take our quiz. We haven’t yet taken a test. That’ll come at the end of the unit, or every 6 lessons.

  Our Thoughts about First Form Latin

Such structured methodology is working well with us for Latin.  As a matter of fact, it’s working wonderfully.  I’m liking it much more than I thought I would, which kinda surprises me a bit. The lessons have been gentle, yet rigorous, and crucial for a child —or any student: enjoyable!

We find ourselves looking forward to our Latin time. Super Hero who usually moans about having to write things down, has not uttered a single complaint. And there’s a fairly good deal of writing in the workbook!  On the contrary, he’s requested to do Latin first thing quite a few times already. Wow! That’s quite something, especially since we are both staunch nonfans of workbooks. Yes, I did buy a workbook just for myself 😉

    Unexpected Joys

Since Spanish is my native language, and Latin my “mother” tongue, or is it actually my “grandmother”? Anyway, I was saying, I find these exercises delightfully familiar.  I can’t help reminisce about the times of my own grammar school days long, long ago in Ecuador. I think of the times my teacher would make us recite and write down verb conjugations. And now, sitting with my son on my side doing something remarkably similar fills my heart with endearing nostalgia.

Regardless of my own reminiscences, studying Latin with Super Hero has been one of the best things I’ve done lately. I can’t tell you how much Super Hero’s loving it. He delights in filling the workbook together. Sometimes it’s like a game for him. He wants to beat me with faster, error-free performance.  Yet, other times, I think he likes being his mom’s equal: here we’re both “the students.”

  Would You Like to Learn More?

With such an endless supply of resources out there, reviews steer you toward those that might work for you and your family.  Many a time I’ve found homeschool curricula we’ve really loved thanks to reviews.  So, if you’re interested please check out Crew reviews for several Memoria Press products.

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#notleavingforschool #day1 Spock has to start a week before his other brothers because he'll be going with Farmer Boy and me to the Heirloom Festival in Sept. Also, we do not normally do school in the entry, but it has a fan. Spock's school doesn't have A/C. :) #homeschool #memoriapress

[honestandunbiased]

Homeschool Prep in action! We chose @memoriapress for our 20-21 school year and man, it’s a lot to digest for a person who has been light on teaching any kind of curriculum for... my entire life! Totally going to be worth the hard work to see these kids flourish and watch those little lightbulbs go off everyday. I’m really loving all the organizing I’m doing for this new season. Later today I’ll be posting my first blog post to share the beginning of our home school journey and what you can expect in my Social Media feeds and my basic review of a home school curriculum. Our family has been blessed through a partnership with Memoria Press and I will be sharing all the wonderful, as well as less glamorous parts of home school every week. Ahh I’m so scared but there’s coffee, Jesus and a well laid out curriculum so it’ll be all good. Now keep us in prayer! #honestandunbiasedblog #memoriapress #homeschool #chicagohomeschool #school #mpchicago #notcps #kids #privateschool #sahm #mom #education #latin #books #partnership #christian #raiseachildinthewaytheyshouldgo #curriculum #latinx #memoriapresschi #latina #classicaleducation https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVyEiVp9IK/?igshid=1frrka98wo5fs

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Yesterday an eager Evan did his work as fast as he could, exactly how the the examples requested him to. He did his very best simply because he wants to watch tv 🤣 and this is how we homeschool! #honestandunbiasedblog #blog #homeschoolchicago #chicago #mpchicago #memoriapress #summer https://www.instagram.com/p/CQy1aY1J-0P/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Taking inspiration from the @memoriapress book of crafts to make these Curious George inspired yellow hats. I used my Cricut instead of drawing the hat but I made 2 different crafts due to that quick thinking. #honestandunbiasedblog #memoriapress #bookofcrafts #mpchicago #craftsforkids #crafts #homeschool #homeschoolchicago #christianhomeachool https://www.instagram.com/p/COf6z6BpGfX/?igshid=7ejdrl93b488

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Diorama of an important scene from The Cricket in Time Square. This was the first book my son worked on as part of the fourth grade home school curriculum from @memoriapress and we just want to be extra with our crafts around here. #honestandunbiasedblog #cricketintimessquare #memoriapress #mpchicago #homeschool https://www.instagram.com/p/CObCmCsJmTI/?igshid=cuyz9y9lre3s

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Ahhh I just love being home with them. There’s a heaviness with trying to figure out what we’re doing for school next year when I feel like homeschool is working so well. She’s in love with writing the letter A, like genuinely in love. These wins make me want to homeschool forever. Also, she wore a floral dress because we were planning to garden. What are you planning for next year? #honestandunbiasedblog #chicago #mpchicago #memoriapress #garden #children #theselittleones #936pennies https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXN93IpkA2/?igshid=5pucv9tbua9g

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I teach all my kids at the same table. For months I rearranged my house and much like all the blogs and groups I’m in mentioned, we just ended up using our dining room space. It’s a good room with lots of plants and great light. There’s wall space and plenty of room for shelving to hold all our books. It makes sense for us to meet in this room instead of in separate rooms and all the kids can learn together easily. It’s also a great place to have snacks when I’m reading aloud. This journey of homeschool is still slow going for us but there’s a lot of richness to spending this time teaching my kids. I’m still in awe of the ministry placed before me and that this is the plan God has for my life. Certainly a worthy endeavor and I’m happy to serve my family this way. Also, special shout out to @blitzintheasylum for the espresso machine. Because of you, my children get a very happy and caffeinated mom. #honestandunbiasedblog #homeschool #bible #elearningalternative #memoriapress #classicalschool #mpchicago #latina https://www.instagram.com/p/CL4mUOdJaYV/?igshid=qplwej64ulj8

[honestandunbiased]

Learning Rocks! See what I did there 😏#honestandunbiasedblog #homeschool #foundrocks #gifts #geology #archeology #chicago #hispanicfamily #enrichment #hispanichomeschool #mpchicago #memoriapress https://www.instagram.com/p/CK4DvFjpLUu/?igshid=13y56fmge5yas

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Today I finished up a (November) review of my experience with the homeschool curriculum from @memoriapress. Also, this child next to me did not know I was taking our picture. https://www.honestandunbiased.com/post/curriculum-review #honestandunbiasedblog #homeschool #homeschoolreview #mpchicago #mpreview #classical #memoriapressreview #curriculum #memoriapress #chicagofam #mexicanhomeschoolfamily https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1_WbypSUA/?igshid=1c2d7rnzbepoz

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Homeschool requires all of me. However, only half of me is the teacher. The babies were sitting with big bro today as he learned Latin from a dvd from @memoriapress and someone small is picking it up. No, not the girl, the boy running around in the background that you can’t see :). That same boy, is keen on #jello. They love to help in the kitchen and I’m happy to spend time with them while treating every moment as a teaching moment. Homeschool is a win today. #honestandunbiasedblog #chicago #memoriapress #mpchicago #mpmom #memoriapressmom #homeschool #elearning https://www.instagram.com/p/CIhHgX9pb_g/?igshid=1wqy8p97n8cjj

[honestandunbiased]

I found yet another way to organize how I teach the littles. I’ve been writing a brief summary of my objectives to teach on the backs of my homemade scripture memorization pages. It really helps me to keep a good teaching flow going and just ask main points and switch between subjects quicker. I can leave my giant curriculum book behind and only use it to check off boxes at the end of the lessons. It’s also kind of cool to review and look back at all we’ve been able to do during this season. #honestandunbiasedblog #chicago #mpchicago #homeschool #memoriapress https://www.instagram.com/p/CIYdBEVJwNa/?igshid=1g2a1l37bf1ny